chanter

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There are two drones and two chaunters, all fixed in one stock.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

It was about 1250 that the human or animals' heads were used as stocks and as bells for the chaunters.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

A different scene it was once, I ween: No monk is now heard his prayers repeating; And the singers and chaunters and black gallivanters Had never a thought of "a silent meeting."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

There were two chaunters mounted in one stock, each having three holes in front and one for the thumb at the back.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

No sooner had he said the word, than the tables were all whipped away,—the pipers began to tune their chaunters.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 by Various